The Urban Parks and Forestry Board convened on January 22, 2026, for a meeting that included board member introductions, approval of meeting minutes, and an annual ethics training session. The training focused on the city's code of ethical conduct, using hypothetical scenarios to discuss conflicts of interest, disclosure, and proper use of public office. No public comments were received, and no binding decisions were made beyond routine approvals.
Thank you everybody for joining us. Before we start the meeting, I'd like to remind folks of a couple of things to make it easier for you to follow along and make public comment. You can watch us in real time in several different ways. Attend in person in the city commission room. Stream us live on your computer by going to the meetings video page at Bozeman.net and clicking the live view event link. You can watch the meeting on Cable TV channel 190. You can also join us via video conference. You'll find the link to join us by clicking on the calendar event for the meeting on the Bozeman's main webpage to find and find City Commission agenda or the Urban Parks and Forestry Board agenda. And then click the link to register and follow the prompts. Lastly, you can call in to listen. You'll find the phone number for the video conference and access code on the agenda for the Urban Parks and Forestry Board. Please note this is for listening only, and you will be unable to give verbal public comment using this method for participating. If you are joining us through the video conference and are having connectivity issues, try exiting out of the meeting and coming back in. If you continue to have issues, please remember you can also listen via the phone information streaming live on the website or on cable. Please remember to go back in and lower your hand when you have finished making your comment. Any public comment received by noon on the day of the meeting will have been distributed and read by that board. Okay. So um the first item on the agenda is board introductions. But basically, it is um as we introduce ourselves, if you could please share a little bit about yourself, your background, and um identify any specific segment of the community you feel most connected to or responsible for representing in these discussions. Hi everyone, my name is Terry Lumsden. Um I grew up in the mountains of Idaho, Central Idaho in Southwest Montana. Go Dylan Beers. Yay. Um I am a grizzly as well. Um I've called Northwest Bozeman my home for the last decade. Um and my career has been rooted in the business side of health care. Um I did take about a five-year sabbatical and recently re-entered the field. Um so between my work, my husband's role as a clinician at Bozeman Health, my daughter who is a senior at Gallatin High. Um, I stay pretty plugged into the local health care business and school systems. I'm also the incoming president for Bozeman Sunrise Rotary Club, where I have benefit, benefited from being just part of a diverse group of people that I consider friends. When I'm not working, you'll find me outside with my family and my Springer Spaniels because I am a daughter of a four stranger. So that's going to come full circuit circle here. But it's the natural world that brings people here to live and work. So I call it the mountain tax. I gladly pay my mountain tax to live here, buy all the equipment to go play. So yeah, a fun tidbit. Two young Canadian men told me girls could not snowboard. I promptly proved them wrong, and umfficially I was the first um snowboard instructor in the state of Montana. I was not certified, so technically somebody in Big Sky beat me out. Thank you. Joe, I'll call on you next. Okay. Good evening. My name is Joe Cartwright. I have lived in Bozeman for about 25 or 26 years. I live in town on South Side Park. I have three girls. Two of them live here with grandchildren, and one lives in Salt Lake. My background is real estate development, and I've owned a variety of properties here in town. But the reason that I'm here is I spend since I live on the park.